I could be wrong, but I think this is what NOS is on about. If this link doesn't work for you, just google "Race Social Construct". — EricH
Racial biases are pretty much ubiquitous. They're built into the structure of our societies and therefore into the structure of our minds. The best we can do is recognize their reality, not feed them in our behavior but analyse and resist them.
You're conflating those who recognize their biases and potential prejudices (as we all should) with racists who embrace them and act them out.
Sez's comments — Tzeentch
Yet if it's biologically false, it's false. If it's socially true, it's a social construct. As you said above.Biologically, the categories are false; socially, they're true. Being a social animal is a double-edged sword; we look for reasons to unite in groups and divide against other groups and find the stupidest ways of doing that. — Baden
in right-wing and far-right forums — RogueAI
Moreover, it implicitly promotes racial segregation, which Adams's comments are a clear indication of. — Tzeentch
We can laugh at the gullible average Qanon Maga-Trumpster all day long, but they're essentially the cannon fodder for the extreme right trying to do everything to keep themselves in power. — Christoffer
They utilize and further the same superstitions, nomenclature, and taxonomies born of pseudoscience to guide their thoughts and behaviors. It invariably leads to hasty generalizations, racial affinity, and guilt by association where none ought to exist. It creates hierarchies or pits one false category against another. In the case of praxis here it creates implicit racial biases. — NOS4A2
Moreover, it implicitly promotes racial segregation, which Adams's comments are a clear indication of. — Tzeentch
When I start looking at their actual effects, these "spontaneous" movements for "the betterment of society" seem to me premeditated attempts at spreading division, probably for the betterment of less than altruistic political agendas. — Tzeentch
In any way? What about as social constructs?For me the fact that people use racial categories to divide human beings doesn’t entail that races themselves are true in any way, social or otherwise. — NOS4A2
The U.S. Census Bureau collects racial data in accordance with the 1997 Office of Management and Budget standards on race and ethnicity. The data on race are based on self-identification and the categories on the form generally reflect a social definition of race. The categories are not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically. Respondents can mark more than one race on the form to indicate their racial mixture.
"It's okay to be white" is an slogan that's been around for years and used by alt-right trolls to spark media backlash. You don't think that Adams knew that? — praxis
For me the fact that people use racial categories to divide human beings doesn’t entail that races themselves are true in any way, social or otherwise — NOS4A2
I would add that the present tribalism and polarization works by those who oppose an ideology (left or right etc.) picking the worst, most fatuous examples there exists. Which usually is some odd extremist, who usually hasn't got anything in common with moderate views.It's progressive, though I would sooner call it regressive since it has effectively worked to dial back the clock on the role of race in society some 50 years. - What can be considered "progressive" these days is basically a counter-movement to actual liberalism, and is basically its polar opposite. It's attempts at controlling speech and people's thoughts are eerily Orwellian, and authoritarian to the very core. — Tzeentch
naivety of some posters here re this is surprising. The way Adams chose and spun that poll (even on the basis of which three quarters of respondents showed no animus to the troll slogan) as proof that black people hated whites and therefore whites should "get away" from them is transparent in its racist intent — Baden
Racial categorization predisposes one to racial bias. It’s a collectivist impulse; we end up responding to people more as members of a social group than as individual people. In so doing you’ve immediately placed them into an out-group instead of integrating them into your in-group, predisposing yourself to bias against the former and preference towards the latter. — NOS4A2
It's actually not transparent. I think you recognize that at face value, his rant wasn't racist. You're saying your dog whistling receptors are picking up covert ill intent. — frank
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No, at face value describing black people as a "hate group" that whites should "get the hell away from" is racist. — Baden
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